Chesapeake Recycling and Document Destruction

The new location allows Chesapeake more room to expand its storage capacity for used electronic equip-ment. Chesapeake is on the road three to four days a week collecting electronics from cell phones to CPUS, printers to televisions.

The facility also allows the business more room to develop its newest service document destruction.Safe and secure document destruction helps ensure confidential documents do not end up in the wrong hands.

Chesapeake offers several document destruction options. A trailer housing a generator-powered shredder with capabilities of shredding 500 lbs of paper per hour, can be taken to a business for on-site shred-ding. Chesapeake can also set collection bins or office consoles at businesses to be picked up on a monthly or quarterly basis. The bins are locked and feature one wide slot for the deposit of confidential papers. Only one Chesapeake employee and authorized personnel of the customer are allowed a key to the container. These containers are picked up on scheduled visits and are locked in a security area at hesapeake for no longer than three days before it is shredded.

Whether today’s mission is shredding paper or disassembling hazardous electronics, Chesapeake is working hard to serve and protect its customers. Visit our website at www.chesapeake recycling.com for more info!

SHREDDING TIPS Shred on a regular schedulesporadic shredding can be misconstrued as suspicious. Use your shredding contractor for ALL of your shredding. Treat all documents equally...shred EVERYTHING! Have a destruction policy to explain what, why, when and how you destruct documents.

FACTA makes national headlines
Last week USA Today published an article on the new FACTA disposal rule, a federal regulation that requires the destruction of consumer information prior to disposal. The front page article highlighted the dramatic impact the new regulation will have on the demand for shredding, the growth of commercial secure destruction services and gave reasons why proper document destruction is an important consumer protection issue.

Chesapeake Recycling provides secure destruction services throughout the Midwest. As the USA Today article noted, demand for document destruction services, while growing steadily, will gain significantly as a result of the new regulations.

The FACTA (Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act) legislation is the latest in a continuing stream of laws intended to prevent the rising occurrence of identity theft, the biggest and fastest-growing crime in the United States. Since the implementation of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountabilty Act) in 1996, the medical industry has also been held to strict requirements in the handling of confidential patient records.

For more information contact Chesapeake Recycling at (574) 946-6602 or visit its web site at www.chesapeakerecycling.com

Chesapeake AAA-certified for mobile shredding operations
Winamac-based Chesapeake Recycling has achieved AAA certification from the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) for mobile shredding operations. The NAID Certification Program is available and optional to all document destruction businesses and establishes essential standards for employee hiring and screening, operations, the destruction process and insurance, as well as other security factors

This mobile shredder is located inside a trailer to facilitate on-site shredding convinence. The shredder can shred 500 lbs paper per hour.

The recently passed Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) requires that all businesses provide proof of the secure and complete destruction of confidential documents pertaining to the company, its customers and employees. This and similar legislation has been passed to help prevent the rise of identity theft, the biggest and fastest-growing crime in the nation. Chesapeake Recycling provides secure document destruction services throughout Indiana and much of the Midwest. It will become AAA-certified for plant-based operations by April 1, 2005.

For more information about document destruction, contact Chesapeake Recycling at (574) 946-6602 or visit its web site at www.chesapeakerecycling.com